Competition Rules

Any current financial and life-time member of the Manawatu Camera Club is entitled to enter into any Club Digital Projected Image (DPI) and/or Print competitions.

Images entered must be taken with a digital or film camera and exposed by the entrant.

There are no restrictions on digital manipulation, however the image must be based on a photograph.

Any image may only be entered twice - once only in “Set Subject” and once in “Open”. The second time may be in the same year or in any subsequent year.

There are two entry grades, A and B. A-Grade is for experienced photographers and B-Grade for novices.

Each entry grade (A and B) has two sections: Set Subject and Open. The Set Subject changes every month and this is set by the club's committee prior to the commencement of the competition year (the following year's subjects are usually announced around November/December the year before).

Each month, every exhibitor may submit up to a maximum of THREE images in their Grade (please note this change that is in effect from March 2018 onwards), either as matted/mounted Prints or as Digital Projected Images (DPI). Entries can be a combination of Prints and DPIs, but collectivley, up to a maximum of three images per month overall.
The three images per month can be either:
2 x Set Subject and 1 x Open, OR
1 x Set Subject and 2 x Open.

DPI competition images must be registered and uploaded on this website's COMPETITION ONLINE ENTRY page and digital image files must be in the following format: jpg file type, 1280 pixels along longer side for horizontal format or 800 pixels along longer side for vertical format." (Note: As the size is specified in pixels, a dpi value is not relevant).
Images may still be submitted at 1024 x 768, but these will not completely fill the new projector's display dimensions and will show black areas around the image.

The competition image entry deadline is on the second Monday of each month for judging on the following month's competition night.

The Digital Image filename must be named in the following format:[Grade]_[Set or Open]_[[ImageTitle].jpg
e.g. if you were entering an image into set subject as an A grade member you would name it as follows:A_S_BlackSkyAtNight.jpg

The photograper's name MUST NOT be included anywhere in the filename or metadata. The body of the email itself or subject line should clearly identify the author. Or there are fields for this on the web form.

There will only be a maximum of 60 images accepted (total printed and digital media) and submitted to a judge for any one monthly competition. Therefore, if this number is reached, the Competition Secretary will remove the second image entered in the "Open" category, or if there is only one and two in the Set Subject, the (first and only) image in "Open" wil be removed. If this does not reduce the entry numbers sufficiently all "Open" entries will be removed. This rule is to help ensure that judges are not overwhelmed with too many prints to judge.

The committee of the Manawatu Camera Club will appoint a judge and the judge's decision is final. There is no appeal process

Closing dates for the monthly competitions are the previous month's Competition Night. Any change to a one-off closing date will be published in the club's newsletter.

Points will be awarded concurrently with the print competition. Digital and print is one competition.

Liability: All possible care will be taken to safeguard the entries but the Manawatu Camera Club, its officers or the judge can not be held responsible for any damage to or loss of entries during processing, transit, evaluation or exhibition. The competitor carries the sole risk.

By entering in any Club competition the competitor acknowledges and accepts these conditions of entry.